Failure to thrive (FTT) is a perplexing disorder commonly seen by primary care physicians. Identification of FTT and an assessment of severity of the undernutrition are important to identify children at risk, and to provide appropriate intervention for preventing malnutrition and developing sequela. One of different anthropometric methods for categorizing undernutrition in childhood is Waterlow...

Limited information is available on what constitutes optimal growth in dogs. The primary aim of this study was to develop evidence-based growth standards for dogs, using retrospective analysis of bodyweight and age data from >6 million young dogs attending a large corporate network of primary care veterinary hospitals across the USA. Electronic medical records were used to generate bodyweight d...

OBJECTIVES The 2006 WHO growth charts were created to provide an international standard for optimal growth, based on healthy, breastfed populations, but it has been suggested that Northern European children fit them poorly. This study uses infant weight data spanning 50 years to determine how well-nourished preschool children from different eras fit the WHO standard, and discuss the implication...

OBJECTIVE Growth charts are essential tools used to assess children's health status. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of environmental factors on the growth of children of a common geographic background. We constructed growth charts for children living in the East of Turkey and compared them with those for Turkish children living in other regions or countries. METHODS ...

1. World Health Organization, Switzerland. MD, PhD Medical Officer, Department of Nutrition Study Coordinator. 2. MD, PhD in Epidemiology. Professor, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Brazil. Growth charts are essential items in the pediatric toolkit. Their value resides in helping to determine the degree to which physiological needs for growth and development are bei...

This article reviews and compares two types of growth charts for tracking human development over age. Both charts assume the existence of a continuous latent variable, but relate to the observed data in different ways. The D-score diagram summarizes developmental indicators into a single aggregate score measuring global development. The relations between the indicators should be consistent with...

Many parents are familiar with the growth charts used by pediatric health care providers. The growth charts are the most widely used tools to track growth and development in children and assist in signaling potential growth problems. The charts consist of a series of curves called ‘‘percentiles’’ that show the growth of children across the United States. The new 2000 Centers for Disease Control...

BACKGROUND In adults, lower numeracy is associated with poorer nutrition label comprehension and higher BMI. It remains unclear whether parental numeracy also impacts children's body weight. PURPOSE We examined the relationship between parental numeracy and children's BMI z-scores and analyzed whether weight-related numerical information processing skills-specifically, portion-size estimation...